Boris Yeltsin: A Political Biography - Hardcover

Solov'ev, Vladimir; Klepikova, Elena

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9780297812524: Boris Yeltsin: A Political Biography

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297812521 ISBN 13: 9780297812524

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992

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This is the first full biography of Boris Yeltsin, and a rare glimpse inside the Soviet power structure, by two acclaimed ex-Soviet journalists. Few political leaders have so electrified the world in recent years as Yeltsin. He was the first Kremlin dissident, the first democratically elected leader in Russia's thousand-year history. Even before the abortive coup of August 1991, he was constantly in the news for his history- making moves, his battles with Mikhail Gorbachev, and his flamboyant, sometimes mysterious personal life. Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova are uniquely placed to provide the first investigative biography, one that goes far beyond the official accounts, including Yeltsin's own politically cautious autobiography. Closely connected with Yeltsin's friends and opponents alike, the writers are the founders of the Soviet Union's first independent press agency. Theirs is a behind-the-scenes look at Yeltsin's rise and fall and rise again, at his political transformation, his duel with Gorbachev, of the rise of the democratic movement in the Soviet Union - the new Russian revolution. In part political thriller, in part cutting-edge analysis, this is the book that must be read to understand what Yeltsin and the Russian Commonwealth have in store for us. Including 8 pages of black and white photographs.

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